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• INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR MODEL S-4800 FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE

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• FOREWORD

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  • Scope of Instruction Manual

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• GUARANTEE

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• INSTALLATION AND AFTER-SALES SERVICE

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• CAUTION ON DISPOSAL OF INSTRUMENT

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  • Available Training Programs

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  • Handling of Chemicals

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  • Instruction Manual

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• SAFETY SUMMARY

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  • General Safety Guidelines

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    • Electrical Hazard

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    • High Temperature Hazard

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    • Magnetic Field Hazard

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    • Laser light Hazard

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    • Warning labels on the Main unit (standard version)

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    • Warning labels on the Display unit (standard version)

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    • Warning labels on the Main unit (ANSI style labels)

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    • Warning labels on the Display unit (ANSI style labels)

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  • WARNING

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    • Other Relevant Precautions

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    • Emergency Off Button

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    • Main Power Disconnect

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    • Power Supply and Grounding Connection

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  • INTERLOCK

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    • Location of safety interlock

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    • Protection from movement during earthquakes (Display unit)

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    • Protection from movement during earthquakes (Main unit)

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    • Gravity location of Main unit (Type1)

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    • Gravity location of Main unit (Type2)

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    • Gravity location of Display unit

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    • An example of the water-leakage detector

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• PRECAUTIONS ON HANDLING

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  • 1. PRECAUTIONS FOR TRANSPORT

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  • 2. PRECAUTIONS FOR POWER CONNECTION

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  • 3. GENERAL PRECAUTIONS

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  • 4. MEASURES FOR EMERGENCY

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  • 5. CAUTIONS ON OPERATION

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  • 6. OTHERS

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  • 7. FLASHING

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• SPECIFICATION

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• INSTALLATION CONDITIONS

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• Table of Contents

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• 1. INSTALLATION

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  • 1.1 Installation Requirements

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    • 1.1.1 General

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    • 1.1.2 Room Temperature and Humidity

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    • 1.1.3 Line Power Requirement

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    • 1.1.4 Grounding

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    • 1.1.5 Water Supply and Drain

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    • 1.1.6 Stray Magnetic Field

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    • 1.1.7 Floor Vibration

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    • 1.1.8 Power Line Noise and Electric Field Noise

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    • 1.1.9 Disturbance by Sound Waves

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    • 1.1.10 Site requirements

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  • 1.2 Materials or Instruments to be prepared by User

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  • 1.3 Wiring

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    • 1.3.1 Power and Ground Wirings

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• 2. FUNCTIONS

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  • 2.1 Control Knobs and Switches on Main Unit

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    • 2.1.1 Main unit (Column)

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  • 2.2 Control Knobs and Switches on Display Unit

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    • 2.2.1 Display

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  • 2.3 Graphical User Interface (GUI)

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    • 2.3.1 Starting the PC and logging in the S-4800 program

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    • 2.3.2 S-4800 SEM Main Window

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    • 2.3.3 Control arrangement on the window

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    • 2.3.4 Menu

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    • 2.3.5 Control Panel

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      • 2.3.5.1 Functional blocks on the Control Panel

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      • 2.3.5.2 HV control block

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      • 2.3.5.3 Scan control block

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      • 2.3.5.4 Auto control

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      • 2.3.5.5 Monitoring function

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      • 2.3.5.6 Magnification control

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      • 2.3.5.7 Image recording

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      • 2.3.5.8 Stage, Image shift control

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      • 2.3.5.9 Extension for Dual screen mode

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    • 2.3.6 Operation Panel

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      • 2.3.6.1 SIGNAL SELECT block

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      • 2.3.6.2 OPE CONDITION block

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      • 2.3.6.3 R.ROTATION block

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      • 2.3.6.4 SCAN MODE block

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      • 2.3.6.5 SCAN SIZE block

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      • 2.3.6.6 DATA ENTRY block

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      • 2.3.6.7 SIGNAL PROCESSING block

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      • 2.3.6.8 TILT COMPENSATION block

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      • 2.3.6.9 COLOR MIXING block

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      • 2.3.6.10 Scroll bar and area marker block

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      • 2.3.6.11 Scroll bar and area marker block

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      • 2.3.6.12 Other optional function block

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      • 2.3.6.13 Arrangement of control blocks

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    • 2.3.7 Mouse operation on the scanning image

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      • 2.3.7.1. Exchanging mouse control functions

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      • 2.3.7.2 Focus/stigma/contrast/brightness adjustment

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      • 2.3.7.3 Stage and image shift tools

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    • 2.3.8 Setup dialog window

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      • 2.3.8.1 Column tab

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      • 2.3.8.2 Image tab

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      • 2.3.8.3 Record tab

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      • 2.3.8.4 OP. Cond tab

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    • 2.3.9 Captured Image Window

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    • 2.3.10 SEM Data Manager Window

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    • 2.3.11 Alignment Dialog Window

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    • 2.3.12 CD Measurement dialog window (option)

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    • 2.3.13 Comm Port Setting Dialog Window

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    • 2.3.14 Login Setting Dialog Window

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    • 2.3.15 Oblique Dialog Window

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    • 2.3.16 Password Setting Dialog Window

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    • 2.3.17 Save Image Dialog Window

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    • 2.3.18 Opt Signal Processing Dialog Window

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    • 2.3.19 Split/Dual Mag Controller

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    • 2.3.20 Using Short-Cut Keys

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• 3. OPERATION

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  • 3.1 Preliminary Operation

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    • 3.1.1 Check of Column Vacuum

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    • 3.1.2 Flow the cooling water

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    • 3.1.3 Starting the Display

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    • 3.1.4 Use of Anti-Contamination Trap

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  • 3.2 Specimen Setting and Specimen Exchange

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    • 3.2.1 Cautions on Specimen Preparation

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    • 3.2.2 Specimen Preparation for Materials

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    • 3.2.3 Adjustment of Specimen Height

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    • 3.2.4 Specimen Exchange Position

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    • 3.2.5 How to Set Specimen

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      • 3.2.5.1 Extracting specimen from stage

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      • 3.2.5.2 Opening the specimen exchange chamber door

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      • 3.2.5.3 Setting a specimen

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  • 3.3 Application of High Voltage

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    • 3.3.1 Condition where the gun high voltage is applicable

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    • 3.3.2 Flashing

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      • 3.3.2.1 About flashing

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      • 3.3.2.2 Flashing Procedure

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    • 3.3.3 Setting of Accelerating Voltage and Emission Current

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    • 3.3.4 Application of High Voltage

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  • 3.4 Optimizing the Electron Beam

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    • 3.4.1 Selecting a Magnification Mode

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    • 3.4.2 Selecting Electron Optical Column Condition

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      • 3.4.2.1 High Mag mode

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      • 3.4.2.2 Low Mag Mode

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    • 3.4.3 Column Alignment Operation

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  • 3.5 Operation for Image Observation

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    • 3.5.1 SE detector

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      • 3.5.1.1 Secondary and backscattered signals and their Characteristics

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      • 3.5.1.2 Signal Control

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    • 3.5.2 Selecting Magnification

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    • 3.5.3 Selecting Scanning Speed

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    • 3.5.4 Image Brightness and Contrast Adjustment

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    • 3.5.5 Focus and Astigmatism Correction

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    • 3.5.6 Operation of the Specimen Stage (Type I - Manual Stage)

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      • 3.5.6.1 Movable range and specimen exchange position

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      • 3.5.6.2 Movable range limitation of X, Y and R axes

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      • 3.5.6.3 Tilt and Z axes limitation

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      • 3.5.6.4 3 axes motorized stage (Type1 stage option)

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      • 3.5.6.5 Stage Locking

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    • 3.5.7 Operation of the Specimen Stage (Type 2 - 5-Axis Motorized Stage)

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      • 3.5.7.1 Coordinate notation

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      • 3.5.7.2 Movable range and specimen exchange position

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      • 3.5.7.3 Setting specimen size and detectors in use

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      • 3.5.7.4 Valious operation for specimen stage

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      • 3.5.7.5 Stage tab

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      • 3.5.7.6 X, Y, R axes operation

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      • 3.5.7.7 Z and Tilt axes operation

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      • 3.5.7.8 Stage mouse operation on the scanning image

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      • 3.5.7.9 Position memory function

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      • 3.5.7.10 Stage History function

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      • 3.5.7.11 Image Navigation

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      • 3.5.7.12 Rotation Assist function

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      • 3.5.7.13 Rotation / tilt eucentric function and calibration

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      • 3.5.7.14 Stage lock

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      • 3.5.7.15 Stopping stage and Returning to previous stage position

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      • 3.5.7.16 Moveable range and limitation by optional detectors

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  • 3.6 Saving and Recording Images

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    • 3.6.1 Saving and Recording Images

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    • 3.6.2 Preparing Images for Recording

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    • 3.6.3 Setting Conditions for Image Capturing

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    • 3.6.4 Image Capturing

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    • 3.6.5 Saving a Scanning Image (Direct Save)

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    • 3.6.6 Saving Captured Images

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    • 3.6.7 Taking Photographs (Option)

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  • 3.7 Using SEM Data Manager

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  • 3.8 At the End of Daily Use

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    • 3.8.1 Turning High Voltage Off

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    • 3.8.2 Setting the Stage at the Specimen Exchange Position

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    • 3.8.3. Taking Out a Specimen

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    • 3.8.4 Closing Windows and Shutting the Display Power

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  • 3.9 Using Other Functions

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    • 3.9.1 Screen Mode

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    • 3.9.2 Split Screen and Dual Mag Mode

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    • 3.9.3 Signal Selection and Color Mixing

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    • 3.9.4 X-ray Analysis Mode

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    • 3.9.5 Signal Processing

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    • 3.9.6 Operating Condition Memory

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    • 3.9.7 Pseudo Color Display

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    • 3.9.8 Data Entry Function

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    • 3.9.9 Raster Rotation, Dynamic Focus and Tilt Compensation

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    • 3.9.11 Printing images using Report generation function

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    • 3.9.12 Copy Image

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    • 3.9.13 Copy Image information text

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    • 3.9.14 Oblique Image

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    • 3.9.15 Optional setting

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    • 3.9.16 Password Setting

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    • 3.9.17 Setting Login Name

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  • 3.10 Image Quality

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    • 3.10.1 Accelerating Voltage and Image Quality

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    • 3.10.2 Condenser Lens Setting and Image Quality

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    • 3.10.3 Objective Lens Aperture Size and Image Quality

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  • 3.11 Mechanical Column Alignment

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    • 3.11.1 Preparative Operation for Alignment

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    • 3.11.2 Mechanical Alignment of the Electron Gun

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    • 3.11.3 Alignment of the Beam Monitor Aperture

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    • 3.11.4 Alignment of the Objective Lens Aperture

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    • 3.11.5 Mechanical Alignment of the First Condenser Lens

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    • 3.11.6 Mechanical Alignment of the Second Condenser Lens

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    • 3.11.7 Stigma Alignment (electro-magnetic alignment)

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    • 3.11.8 Aperture Alignment (electro-magnetic alignment)

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  • 3.12 Using SEM Data Manager

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    • 3.12.1 Precaution About SEM Data Manager

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    • 3.12.2 Functions

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      • 3.12.2.1 Image Database

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      • 3.12.2.2 Menu and tool buttons

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    • 3.12.3 Operation

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      • 3.12.3.1 Registering Images on SEM Data Manager Database

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      • 3.12.3.2 Selecting User name and opening data tree

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      • 3.12.3.3 Image display

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      • 3.12.3.4 Image information

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      • 3.12.3.5 Viewer display

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      • 3.12.3.6 Data Entry

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      • 3.12.3.7 Contrast Conversion

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      • 3.12.3.8 Image Processing

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      • 3.12.3.9 Color Mixing

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      • 3.12.3.10 Printing images

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      • 3.12.3.11 Image file operation

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      • 3.12.3.12 Batch operation of image files

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      • 3.12.3.13 Slide show

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      • 3.12.3.14 Optimizing and repairing database file

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• 4. MAINTENANCE

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  • 4.1 Maintenance of Electron optical Column

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    • 4.1.1 Maintaining Vacuum of Electron Gun and Intermediate Chamber

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    • 4.1.2 Replacement and Cleaning of Objective Lens Aperture

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    • 4.1.3 Cleaning of Aperture Plates

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  • 4.2 Maintenance of Rotary Pump （Only for P/N 539-9010 and 539-9060）

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    • 4.2.1 Oil Change

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    • 4.2.2 Replacement of Oil Mist Trap

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    • 4.2.3 Troubleshooting

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  • 4.3 Maintenance of Air Compressor（Only for P/N 539-9010 and 539-9060）

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    • 4.3.1 Checkup and Maintenance

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    • 4.3.2 Troubleshooting of Air Compressor

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    • 4.3.3 Location and Functions of Major Components

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  • 4.4 Troubleshooting

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    • 4.4.1 When Column Evacuation does not Work

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    • 4.4.2 When Specimen Exchange Chamber Vacuum is not Good

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    • 4.4.3 When Specimen Chamber Vacuum is not Good

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    • 4.4.4 When Ion Pump Vacuum Degraded

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    • 4.4.5 When Emission Current is not Set at Normal Value

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    • 4.4.6 When Image is not Shown on Screen

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    • 4.4.7 When Image is Very Noisy

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    • 4.4.8 When You cannot Correct Astigmatism

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    • 4.4.9 When Auto Focus or Auto Stigma does not Work Satisfactorily

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    • 4.4.10 When S-4800 control program does not start up

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    • 4.4.11 When PC has Hanged up

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    • 4.4.12 When Error Messages are shown

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  • 4.5 Operation for shutting down all power supply of S-4800

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  • 4.6 Operation when power was shut down by power line failure

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  • 4.7 Operation for Starting S-4800

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  • 4.8 Operation when power line failure recovered

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  • 4.9 Operation when Water supply stopped by failure

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  • 4.10 Gun Baking operation

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  • 4.11 Caution on Maintenance

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• 5. REPLACEMENT PARTS

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  • 5.1 Consumables and Spare Parts

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    • 5.1.1 Consumables

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    • 5.1.2 Replacement Parts

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    • 5.1.3 Spare Parts

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• 6. ACCESSORY OPERATION

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  • 6.1 Model S-5080 Auto-Camera (option)

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    • 6.1.1 Configuration

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    • 6.1.2 Specifications

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    • 6.1.3 Assembling the Camera

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    • 6.1.4 Operation

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  • 6.2 Installation Manual for the SEC Guide Rail (for Installer)

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• INDEX

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